Cy's "Deaf Tea Time" Great Posting About Discords on DeafRead

Cy's wisdoms always prevail every time on her "Deaf Tea Time" vlogsite.

I encountered too many deaf people and told me personally that they lost their personal interests in the DeafRead site lately.

Questions arised about the Pro-CI blogs whether they are really the corporate-driven agendas for the CI manfacturers and investors. If yes, then the DeafRead ought to charge the so-called business interests for the posting fee to run the Deaf blogsphere.

I am with Cy and other concerned deaf individuals all the way. Many pro-CI print publications do not bother to print any viewpoints from culturally deaf individuals whose express criticism or concerns about the CI itself.

Not many culturally deaf mediums exist anywhere in the world. Let us, culturally deaf people have our own spaces without being compromised, infringed upon, imposed or annoyed.

Cy offered the perfect solution - seperate "medical" page on the DeafRead blogsphere.

Culturally deaf people often willing to bend down for the sake of so-called diverse viewpoints, but the proponents of CI and oralism frequently do not return such a favor.

At least, we, culturally deaf need our own spaces like steering CI proponents to the smoking area. Every of us know the secondhand smoke is generally bad for nonsmokers. Smokers still could light up their addictions feet away from non-smokers and individuals with asthma in designated area. Solution for everyone!

Thank you, Cy for bringing up this brilliant idea. We, the DeafRead viewers always love you and your sincere vlog presentations.

ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Why Isn't Jerry Covell on DPN's 20thAnniversary Guest List?

Why isn't Jerry Covell on the Deaf President Now (DPN)'s 20th Anniversary Banquet guest list at the Gallaudet Kellogg Conference Center (GKCC) next March 8th?

Jerry Covell was one of the four DPN student leaders whose known as most firebrand speaker among them. He surely fired up the apathetic Gallaudet student body into real action. His speaking style definitely electrificed the would-be student protestors and other gawkers. Without Jerry Covell as the DPN student leader, the DPN protest probably will not take the place or be very flavorless.

Jerry Covell is no longer with the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) as an executive director. Rumors surfaced about him being very unhappy with the MCDHH and the state of Missouri.

Jerry Covell seems disfrancished with the Deaf America for years. Jerry's deaf kid brother, Joey Covell, was no longer with us. Joey left on his term.

Jerry Covell offered himself to be a meditator between the "Unity for Gallaudet" protestors and university adminstration. His offer never gotten through at all.

Where is Jerry Covell now?

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

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Why Isn't Jerry Covell on DPN's 20 Guest List?

Why isn't Jerry Covell, the firebrand speaker/student leader of the Deaf President Now (DPN)on the DPN 20th Anniversary Banquet at Gallaudet Kellogg Conference Center (GKCC) on March 12th?

Jerry Covell is no longer with the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) as an executive director.

Jerry Covell offered to meditate the "Unity for Gallaudet" protest between the protestors and university adminstration last Fall 2006. His offer never gotten through at all.

For years, Jerry Covell seems disfranchised with the Deaf America for some reasons.

Where is Jerry Covell now?

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

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Effective Protest Tactics Against "Steak 'n Shakes"

First of all, I owe a heartfelt apology to Karen Putz for my harsh criticism of her so-called melee with the "Steak 'n Shakes" establishment. I should refrain myself from writing up the blog piece without knowing the full story what really happened.

Let's do the effective protest tactics to teach the "Steak 'n Shakes" fast-food chains for defying such common sense approach to modify or resolve the given situation with Karen Putz. How come didn't the simple order like two milkshakes be served without making any fuss within the assigned manager of this fast food establishment?

We ought to do the "seize" and "park" of the drive-thru path at most "Steak 'n Shakes" establishment during the very busy lunch hours. We have to be pragmatic about wavering some sites if the manager have the history of accommodating deaf customers in the past. We do not need to stir up the wrong hornet nest.

Get any deaf volunteers including kids to see if they will come down to seize the drive-thru path of the "Steak 'n Shakes" on arranged day. Please notify the media about time and location of organized protest.

Simply go around to the drive-thru window as other deaf drivers drive up behind the coordinator of the protest, then turn off the engine and give the auto keys to your kids to hide them from the police officers. That will block the "Steak 'n Shakes" drive-thru paths for hours and cause those establishments losing their profits from usual busy lunch traffic.

That will definitely TEACH the "Steak 'n Shakes" establishment how they ought to treat deaf drivers without any difficulties. The "Steak 'n Shakes" will get the message of dealing with deaf customers.

Ever stand in the line inside the "Steak 'n Shakes" establishment to keep other hearing customers from ordering anything at those places. Just ignore the manager and employee(s) and use ASL with rhetorical question for facial expression.

If the police officers are called upon. Just make gesture that you try to place the order, but tell the police that the manager and employee(s) give you or other deaf protesters hard time for ordering some items.

Please check out the local ordinance to find out if any organized protest like seizing and parking is against the law . Find the civil rights lawyer(s) or legal consultant(s) and have him/her coming to the protest to observe as a witness. Okay?

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

You, HOH Whiners About Deaf Access!!!

Oh boy! You, Hard of Hearing or Hearing Impaired populace tend to whine about the so-called deaf access within the fast food outlets!

You, HOH/deaf individuals ought to do the real favor to the Mother Earth (real fragile macro-organism) by getting out of your vehicle and walking up to the counter to make some orders. Stop the gasoline emission from contributing to the growing seriousness of climate changes! Why you have to sit on your fat tush and drive by the drive-thru windows??

Fast food stuffs are not good for you anyway. Consuming food ought to be the special moment to appreciate your dining in relaxing manner than chomping up or gulping heart-cloggin' drinks (ex. milkshakes). Why drink the milkshakes in the wintertime? People in general, should learn to sit down and eat foods at the real table. No time for such a task? When will you take a hard look at yourself what you and others are doing to each others like screaming out about the lack of deaf access?

No wonder, the majority of American kids are really obese (fat ones)! What an idea of teaching your own kids how to lead such a life like too lazy to get out of the car and walk up to the counter to order some foods for convienence!

We, deaf and hoh people will be better off by not patronizing any business that doesn't provide equal accessibility/accomodation. Why waste our own energy or give ourselves real stress like taking up an issue with the so-called deaf access.

Parents of young children ought to stock up fresh fruits/vegetables, nuts, sunflower seeds and other healthy snakcs in their own personal vehicle as a case of emergency for energy resurgence, etc.

People ought go back to the days of food huntings and gatherings than waltzing thru the fast food establishment drive-thru. We spend too much on the Internet browsing, television viewings and shopping of non-necessity stuffs nowaday.

The HOH parent of young son ought to be legally cited for providing junk foods to hir own son. Any parents smoke in their own homes with presence of children, ought to be legally charged for child abuse and endangerment to the health of their own children.

Is our deaf society getting too lazy like making a whiny demand for the deaf access to the fast food drive-thru orders? We really do not have to follow the footsteps of other fat hearies like going to the fast food outlets.

Let's do something productive like raising the standards in Pre-K to 12 deaf education to produce well-rounded deaf individuals and strength the employment protections among deaf employees from being systematically discriminated or unfairly demoted or fired, etc.

Real shame on Karen Putz and other bloggers/vloggers for making a big fuss about not being served "heart-clogging" drinks at the Steak 'N Shakes. So what?

More to life than craving for something that will clog your hearts and produce excessive mucus coming from the consumption of dairy products. Comprendo?

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Public Apology to CI Users, But .....

I meant to issue a sincere public apology to the CI users everywhere, but NOT the parents of deaf youngsters to impose their own ideal of what the world should be.

I am really much PLEASED to see more and more deaf people raising their hands and say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"

I have no intention of putting down the CI users themselves, who happened to be victimized by their own clueless and ignorant and wishy-washy parents and the cochlear implant (CI) industry from the speech pathologists and surgeons. I apologize sincerely if I lump the CI users unfairly into the bowl with the parents of deaf children whose cochlearized their own deaf child without thinking about the long-term consquences.

You, the CI users are still part of the deaf American community very much. I dearly care about you, CI users. To any of the deaf ############ choose to undergo the CI surgery. I still accept you as a deaf person anyway and treat you with respect.

We must get banded together to form the public education ads to make the future parents of deaf children from COCHLEARIZING their own deaf child and any costly mistakes!

We could do several things like PUBLIC EDUCATION ADS

LOBBYING GROUPS ACROSS THE U.S. TO PERSUADE
STATE AND NATIONAL LEGISLATORS AND EDUCATORS

CONTINTUALLY EXPOSE THE CI INDUSTRY AND PROPONENTS
OF CI SURGERY AND AUDISTIC INTENTIONS


The lobbying form against the CI should have several paid staffers and regular fundings for related expenses.

We must keep treat the CI surgery as a human rights violation against the humanity, not about the cultural and linguistic issue. The general public and the United Nations will be more supportive of our uphill battle against the invasive and questionable method to reverse the human flaws.

Let's work together to mobilize the worthy crusade against the CI industry and the future audistic parents of deaf children!

Here is my email address - rlmdeaf@hotmail.com

It's a Time for Real Action, "Huff and Puff"! That will be our important battle since the abolitionist movement against the evils of slavery and women's rights to vote and civil rights movement. America and the rest of world is looking upon us as a rightful thing to do.

Mindless violence and verbal threats will be not accepted in any means. Thanks.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Clarification on What I Meant By Denying CI Users "Disabled" Status

Here is the clarification on what I really meant by denying the CI users "disabled" status. I notice that I did not write more clearly. I intend to address the issue of how the future parents of deaf youngsters to be fitted with CI.

After reading numerous blog and comment postings by parents of deaf youngsters with CI. They kinda rub the "successful CI adaptive" stories against our eyes on repeated basis. Nothing to do with the current CI users! That would be seen as "grandfather clause" by waivering the present CI users from any restriction imposed upon them.

As for the issue of parents of deaf youngsters who want to implant their offsprings wit hthe CI device. They try to normalize the deaf child fitted with the CI device. So the parent of deaf child with CI ought not to find any excuse like saying "My child is disabled".

Too many parents of deaf youngsters unnecessarily receive the government benefits without their deaf child know about it. Why the parents of any deaf child want to normalize hir own deaf child, then still ask the society to see the child as disabled.

If we succeed the federal legislation to re-classify the future deaf child with CI as "non-disabled". That meant the parent of deaf child with CI will be not able to make any requests to the school system for the installation of the FM system or pay the operational cost of CI, ex. speech training.

Parents of any dear child with CI choose to normalize hir own child thru the invasive surgery without the consent of deaf child (often in many cases). So they should not expect hir deaf child with CI having double or triple advantages over culturally deaf people for future employment, etc.

The society at large should classify any future deaf child with CI as "non-disabled". So the deaf person with CI will not have any unfair advantage(s) over culturally deaf like the affirmative action programs recruiting disadvantaged individuals for employment postiton. So the future deaf child with CI will be NOT qualifed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) law. Parents of deaf child with CI choose to normalize hir own child.

The employers surely will choose the deaf person with CI over qualified culturally deaf person for the job postiton. Why should the deaf person with CI have more advantage over culturally deaf person? That is something to do with the premptive classifcation of social engineering by hearing people.

Future parents of deaf child ought to think TWICE before cochelarizing hir own deaf child. They will not use any kind of excuses by saying "My child is disabled. He/she have the special needs for accomodation/accessibility, etc."

I personally loathe the idea of classifying deaf people as "disabled" which many of us really not consider it. Culturally deaf people are part of the cultural and linguistic minority, not "disabled". Why should the parents of deaf child with CI consider hir own deaf child "disabled"

How true about the CI users remove the device, then they are still deaf anyway!

Same thing happened with Alexander Graham Bell successfully persuaded the New York state legislature in the late 1800s about the importance of oral education for deaf children to be normally intergrated into the society at large, not being clannish.

In the end, the deaf students of oral education still end up forming their own deaf clubs and other services and socialize with other deaf people, not hearing counterparts.

Why the society at large (private insurers and government) should pay for the cochlear implant surgery on deaf children, then still end up in the deaf world and seen as "disabled"?

What About Getting Health Insurance For Freelance ASL Interpreters?

Too many freelance ASL interpreters lack the health insurance coverage!

Why not the American deaf community get together to create the national affordable health insurance coverage program for freelance ASL interpreters?

So more and more freelance ASL interpreters could be available for the community-based tasks than running out to the Video Relay Service (VRS) companies.

Freelance ASL and other sign language interpreters are human beings, too. Freelance ASL interpreters often sacrifice themselves at their own expenses like driving pretty far for any freelance assignments.

Surprisingly, many sign language interpreters with the sign language agency or government or corporation, still pay hefty monthly premium fee for limited health insurance coverage like $500 per month.

We also need special tax breaks for our freelance sign language interpreters and other interpreters of the deaf. The translators for government business often get special tax breaks, not any sign language interpreters.

See that we really have the shortage of component sign language interpreters in increasingly corporatized American society.

Sign language interpreters especially ASL interpreters often are our allies in the first line of defense in many deaf events like the Gallaudet protests. One freelance interpreter volunteered to sign interpret contintually without any break or pay more than 17 hours on very same day during the Gallaudet protest.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)

Gifts for ASL/Cued Speech Interpreter???

When I read Jamie Berke's submittance on her "About. Com: Deafness" blog on the issue of gifts for sign language interpreters derived from the About.Com: Health's Disease and Condition content reviewed by the Medical Review Board (How interesting!!)

Well, I do not have any problems with the idea of giving gifts to sign language interpreters if anyone deaf have the SAME interpreter over and over at the workplace or enterprise or lecture. That is up to deaf clients shower the sign language interpreter to show hir own appreciation for underappreciated and hardworking interpreter Why not!

The problems with Jamie Berke's blog submittance without being more specific and give list of recommendation and any examples.

Not all sign language interpreter being well-paid for interpreting assignments until they are formally employed with the sign language agency. Handful of freelance sign language interpreters DO NOT HAVE any health insurance or regular paychecks.

Let's suppose that any deaf client/corporation make very last-minute request for freelance sign language interpreter for an emergency conference. That interpreter give up hir own plan like accompanying hir own child's birthday party. The deaf client/corporation would be perfectly generous to the assigned sign language interpreter to show their appreciation for anyone, who sacrifice hir own personal life. Either give out the free corporation gift for the interpreter's child as a birthday present.

I am sure that there are many thoughtful and considerate deaf clients of sign language interpreters with our deaf community.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)

Let's Deny CI Users "Disabled" Status!

Many cochlear implant (CI) users and idealized parents of deaf youngsters with CI use often remind us that they greatly benefit from the use of CI, etc. Good for them!

That is the time for us, deaf community to demand that any deaf individuals with CI to be classifed as non-disabled and will not able to receive any benefits or special tax breaks, etc. Why should the CI users be seen as disabled?

We need the federal legisation to classify the CI users as non-disabled individuals as what the proponents of CI repeatedly tell the parents of deaf youngsters to be fitted with the CI device for leading the normal life.

CI users should not benefit from the disabled status in any way. Should they?

Any deaf children with CI devices should not receive any disability benefits like the monthly SSI checks to fatten the parents of deaf youngsters' bottom line (very common). Nor they could get any kind of benefits from disabled reduced fares for buses and subways, etc.

We need to mobilize the state and federal government and private health insurance providers to classify hearing loss as non-health issue. So those government don't have to pay for the CI surgery which really have nothing to do with the matter of life and death.

Don't let the CI users to walk over us, deaf people and still receive special benefits as disabled individuals.

Correction of hearing loss should lead to the classification of non-disabled status. So the proponents of CI use could not have both ways of exploiting deaf people to fatten their paychecks and ideals for the perfect society.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Truth About Drew Gutches

Many deaf individuals are clearly upset about malicious comments/false accusations remained on RLMDEAF's "Drew Gutches Passed Away Yesterday" blog posting. I could not able to delete those following comments without removal of an entire blog posting about Drew Gutches passed away. I really do not know how to. I did check out the comment moderation forum, but doesn't say anything about deleting particular comments. RECENT ACTION - SUCCESSFUL DELETION OF MALICIOUS COMMENTS AND FOLLOWING COMMENTS FROM 27 COMMENTS TO 11 COMMENTS.

I really didn't see comments until next day, Monday early evening around 5:27pm. I wrote the blog posting about Drew Gutches passed away last Sunday late afternoon around 5pm. I was supposedly checked out any comments on early Monday morning. I didn't. I had to go out without accessing to the computer til later in the day.

I have to compose another blog posting to make the DeafRead readers to be aware of false accusations against Drew Gutches which he have no way of defending himself or responding to such ugly accusations.

To my own knowledge, I checked out the D.C. Sexual Offender Registry website to see if Drew Gutches was really a registered sexual offender or not. Nothing found on that particular website.

I was really puzzled about someone claimed about Drew Gutches having HIV. I did not see any physical signs on Drew Gutches had HIV. I did not see anything about Drew Gutches having HIV before he passed away.

I could completely understand how Drew's friends, supporters and associates feel about how unfair to Drew Gutches in many ways.

I have been a victim of falsehoods and ugly rumors pretty many time among the deaf DC community. I do sympathize with Drew Gutches' friends, supporters and associates.

The last thing is I want to muzzle or silence victims of sexual abuse if something really happen. I have to ask the so-called victims of Drew Gutches to email me privately if any of them have been victimized by the deceased person. So I could check out the story whether they tell the truth or not. Here is my email address -
rlmdeaf@hotmail.com

Few remaining questions:

#1 Why Drew Gutches was allowed on the main Gallaudet campus if he was accused of something unthinkable against someone? The Gallaudet Department of Public Safety would surely ban Drew Gutches from coming on the campus. They didn't!

#2 Why Drew Gutches's name was found nothing on the D.C. Sexual Offender Registry website? How come?

That could be one of the former disgruntled employee within Drew Gutches' wireless pager enterprise. Or someone intentionally discredit me and my blog? Is there someone really despise Drew Gutches?

Drew Gutches and I were not much a friend. We were once a neighbor. I formerly reside on the 9th Street one block from Drew's residence along the K Street during my student days.

I had seen Drew Gutches last time at the Starbucks coffeehouse on Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast two blocks from the U.S. Capitol and Library of Congress on Friday, December 17th, 2007. That was it.

I am totally devastated about this whole matter why people did leave nasty/malicious comments against Drew Gutches when he passed away. I write the blog posting about Drew Gutches which I consider it "newsworthy" as many deaf people know Drew Gutches.

I found Drew Gutches admirable in many way for his willingness to defy conventional thinking like establishing the wireless enterprise near the main Gallaudet University campus. He bought the house in such decaying neighborhood like the Old City area one and half block from Gallaudet University campus. Other deaf individuals followed his path to buy houses within the campus proximity.

Drew Gutches came to me and told me which he considered me to be the negative factor on the DeafRead blogsphere. I strongly disagreed with him. Drew Gutches always was an optimistic person, who willingly gamble with many things.

Drew Gutches was a person of many things beyond our assumption of viewing this person. He always found things to be workable in despite of his limited vision. Drew managed to do electrical wire installations ever he couldn't tell which color for wiring - red, blue and yellow. Drew always done things amazingly.

I take the full responsibility for malicious comments left on my blog posting, "Drew Gutches Passed Away Yesterday". At least, I finally get someone to assist me deleting unpleasant comments.

Please Let Drew Gutches Remains in the Afterlife Peace. If you have issues with Drew Gutches, take an appropriate actions and not take any cheap shots against Drew Gutches on my blog. Okay? I already enable the comment moderation at the advice of my good friend.

Here is my email address - rlmdeaf@hotmail.com

Drew Gutches Passed Away Yesterday, 1/5/08

Many deaf people knew Drew Gutches from the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, Washington, DC, Class of 1985 and the Boundless Wireless Inc. and Deaf Pagers, Inc. He was a familar face in countless deaf events and made his appearances at numerous ASL Expo/ Deaf Nation Expo across the United States.

Drew Gutches was mainly seen last time at the major deaf event like the "Deaf Freedom 2007 cruise". He passed away yesterday Saturday afternoon at estimated 1:55pm. Drew had several life-threatening strokes since the New Year Day 2008.

Drew Gutches was very generous finanical supporter of the "Unity for Gallaudet" (UFG) protest from the beginning. Gutches frequently had pizzas delivered from local pizza parlors to the hungry UFG supporters. Gutches always had been proud of being a culturally deaf person. He also loaned his laptop computer notebook to Ricky Taylor aka Ridor during the "UFG" protest to keep the deaf community abreast of the recent Gallaudet protest activities and news.

Drew Gutches involved in many deaf organizations from the DC Association of the Deaf (DCAD) to the International Deaf Leather (IDL). He currently served as a treasurer, member keeper, historian and webmaster for the International Deaf Leather.

Drew Gutches was well-known as a deaf landlord to many Gallaudet students for nearly 20 years. He generously rented rooms to international to typical American Gallaudet students which just one and half block away from the main Gallaudet campus on the Eighth Street, Northeast.

Drew Gutches always had a heart of gold to his own customers when come to the deaf wireless pagers. He usually felt bad for some deaf customers if any of them could not make monthly payments due to such misunderstandings or not read the fine prints, etc.

Drew Gutches also was a regular commentator on several deaf blogs from time to time. He also was a regular reader of the DeafRead vlog/blogsphere. Althought Drew Gutches was a deaf-blind himself.

Wish Drew Gutches and his loved ones and friends an everlasting peace.

DEAF FACTCHECK - Obama and Iowa School for the Deaf

Handful of DeafRead readers somewhat got the wrong impression that Honorable Barack Obama actually visited the Iowa School for the Deaf on January 1st. The victor of the Iowa 2008 caucus just campaigned at the publicly-funded public facility as part of regular campaign stops. Very typical of primary presidential campaigns to find any suitable facility to accommodate the large numbers of supporters and undecided voters.

Nothing special about Obama had a campaign stop at the Iowa School for the Deaf (ISD)'s Harry Langdon Bouvelard Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) while the ISD students hadn't returned to the school from their Winter Break at that time. This rally was arranged and hosted by Kristine Kolky. Honorable Barack Obama never had a chance of touring the school and meeting any ISD students.

The Obama 2008 campaign rally at the ISD was supposed to be held at 6pm which delayed to 10:30pm. Questionable claims about the terps for the deaf and deaf individuals were present at the ISD rally by Dr. Jeanette Prickett, ISD Supertindent on David Evans' "Mr. Sandman's Sandbox" blog. No official information about providing the interpreters for the deaf attendees on the official Barack Obama websites or other Obama supporters' websites. Ever not on Barack Obama's websites for New Hampshire primary campaign events about providing terp services for deaf attendees at all. Yes, New Hampshire presidential campaign events were usually more "grassroots" events than formal campaign stops.

Perhaps the words of mouth got around with the Iowa Deaf Community about the presence of terps for deaf at very last-minute notices. The political campaign teams usually looked for terps willingly to volunteer or donate their time. Ever not bothered to keep their promises of paying terps for the deaf people. That's what happened with the George W. Bush's 2000 campaign people for not paying interpreters of the deaf at all. Several interpreters of the deaf still wait for the Bush people to send their paychecks as promised.

Obama's campaign stop at the Iowa School for the Deaf in Western Iowa that doesn't meant anything for Obama embraced the issues of deaf people or our cultural/linguistic concerns. Just need the facility to give the political speeches and host the rallies within the Obama 2008 campaign.

No validity or confirmation about deaf people being involved in the Iowa 2008 Caucus. The CNN live airings of Iowa 2008 caucuses didn't show any deaf individuals so far. No questions about how often our presence as deaf people tend to be invisible to the society at large.

Were there any deaf campaign volunteers within Obama's Iowa campaign team? Dunno know about all presidential contenders' New Hamsphire campaign team having any deaf volunteers.

What about any deaf individuals as paid staffers on any 2008 presidential campaign staff? Someone deaf claimed to be on Hillary Clinton's campaign staff- volunteer or paid staffer. Any truth to his claim?